This might seem odd if it wasn’t for where his office is, right inside Wankhede Stadium, the World Cup final venue.
A total of 8 ODI games have been played here. This is Wankhede’s moment.It has hosted important matches before, and been the venue for glorious cricketing moments, like Ravi Shastri’s six sixes in an over, but nothing can compare to a World Cup Final with,Prabhu certainly never expected to build a stadium. By contrast, Wankhede came up with incredible speed: “Eleven months and 23 days exactly,” says Prabhu with a lot of pride. Brabourne hosted 17 Test matches between 1948 and 1973, starting with two matches against the West Indies in India which resulted in a stalemate.

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This happened to be the first Twenty20 International on Indian soil.The match between India and Australia on October 10, 1964, was an absolute cracker of a match in which India held the nerve to win the match by 2 wickets with MAK Pataudi playing a captain's knock and helping India chase the target in the 4th Innings.The Brabourne Stadium played host to seven home matches of the Mumbai Indians in the third season after they were denied the chance to host the IPL-2 Finals after Rajasthan Royals who were the Champions of the Inaugural season chose as the tournament was moved to South Africa due to various reasons.
The hype and excitement over this World Cup final can’t compare to anything, but it was still a uniquely charged atmosphere in which the match began.The band celebrating the inauguration of the stadium,The Times of India reported that East Stand tickets, which cost Rs 41 each, sold for Rs 100, while North Stand tickets, at Rs 127, went for an unimaginable three times that price. The result has to be one of the boxed-in stadiums in the world, with the railway on one side, and buildings pressing closely all around. Since this was against Clive Lloyd’s all conquering side, not much hope was held out for the Indians, and they seemed to confirm this by losing the first two matches.But then on January 2, the MAK Pataudi lead side pulled off an electrifying win at Eden Gardens, followed by a second one at Chepauk. The 1983 World Cup trophy was placed here until 2006 when it was moved to the newly constructed Wankhede Stadium.With a capacity of 20,000, it has been the second home for the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. A One Day International match between Pakistan and Australia was played at Brabourne after a long gap of thirteen years.The first professional match to be played at the ground was in 1937 when Lord Tennyson's XI played against CCI XI in a first-class match. Construction was more than halfway done, when suddenly everything changed. Although the ground has not hosted a World Cup match, it has been used as a practice venue during the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

Finally, both police and crowd were brought under control and the BCA surveyed the damage.